Table-clock



model.

P. E. MORGAN & J. A. EVARTS.

Table Clock.

No. 233,537. Patented Oct. 19,1330.

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FRANK E. MORGAN, OF NEW HAVEN, AND JOHN A. EVARTS, OF WEST MERIDEN, ASSIGNORS TO THE BRADLEY 8t HUBBARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST MERIDEN, AND JEROME & CO., OF NEW HAVEN,

CONNECTICUT.

TABLE-CLOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,537, dated October 19, 1880,

Application filed September 6, 1880. (Model) To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, FRANK E. MORGAN, of New Haven, and JOHN A. EVARTs, of \Vest Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Table-Clock; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute par of this ecifi cation, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front view. Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate the method of attachment.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of attaching clocks to inkstands and other articles of table-furniture.

1n the usual construction the clocks are made as a fixed and permanent part of the inkstand and other articles of furniture, and the clock is constructed to be wound at the rear. As considerable power is necessary to wind the clock, and the inkstand or other article of furniture must be firmly held during the operation of winding, it frequently occurs that the article to which the clock is attached is upset, broken, or otherwise disarranged by the operation of winding.

The object of this invention is to overcome this difficulty; and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

In the illustration the clock is shown as applied to the pen-rack of an inkstand-support. On the bottom of the clock-case A a forkshaped piece, a, is attached, and on the penrack a headed stud, b, is arranged, on which the fork-shaped piece is set, as seen in Fig. 3. The body of the case rests on a suitable seat formed on the rack. The head of the stud b on one side the fork and the rack on the oppo- 5 Instead ot the fork-piece a on the clock and the headed stud on the rack, this order may be reversed-the stud arranged upon the clockcase and a corresponding slot in the pen-rack; or it may be simply a tongue under one and a loop on the other, into which the tongue will pass.

The illustration here given of the attachment of the clock to the pen-rack of the ink stand-support will be sut'ticient to enable those skilled in the art to attach the clock to other articles of table-furniture. Therefore, without confining ourselves to a specific method of at taching the clock to the article of table-furniture, or to any particular article to which the clock may be attached,

We claim- The combination of a clock with articles of table-furniture, the case of the clock and the said article provided with means, substantially such as described, for removably attaching the clock to the said article, substantially as specified.

F. E. MORGAN. JOHN A. EVARTS.

Witnesses for Evarts:

CHAS. D. NEWBURY, ROBERT P. RAND.

\Vitnesses for Morgan J. H. SHUMWAY, JOHN E. EARLE. 

